Islands of the Blessed

American  

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

1. islands in the ocean at the remotest western end of the world, to which the souls of heroes and worthy persons were said to be transported after death.

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Islands of the Blessed British  

plural noun

1. Also called: Hesperides.  Greek myth lands where the souls of heroes and good men were taken after death

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Example Sentences

Actually, Ialu was a forerunner of the Greek Islands of the Blessed.

From Time Magazine Archive

We might have been the discoverers of an uninhabited bay in the Islands of the Blessed.

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)

For Hiawatha had disappeared forever in the kingdom of the North-west wind and the Islands of the Blessed.

From The Story of Hiawatha Adapted from Longfellow by Stokes, Winston

When he came home empty-handed, heavy-hearted, lo! the spirit of Minnehaha had fled to the Islands of the Blessed.

From French Pathfinders in North America by Johnson, William Henry

The allusions to the golden apples indicate that tradition regarded the "Islands of the Blessed" in the Atlantic Ocean as a place of orchards.

From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Donnelly, Ignatius